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Did you know you can connect sustainability with profitability?

With seamless integration, unique asset monitoring, and higher reliability, Danfoss Drives can help mining, cement, and other heavy industries achieve greater sustainability and profitability.

High performance in the toughest conditions

Danfoss Drives ensure reliable 24/7 operation, allowing you to focus on optimizing your heavy industry operation and lower your use of resources. With their robust design, our drives meet the harsh demands of heavy industry and can help you reap the benefits of world-class high-torque accuracy and superior shaft performance. Our IP66 standard delivers high-level performance control and with their sensorless design our drives enable you to achieve maximum uptime, while reducing complexity in your system.

Decarbonizing heavy industry with Danfoss Drives

To help make it easier to meet the diverging demands of increasing output while also increasing the electrification of your operations, Danfoss Drives is on a quest to become your preferred decarbonization partner. We combine our leading drives and expertise to aid you in reaching your environmental and efficiency goals, while maintaining your competitive advantage. With energy efficiency embedded in everything we do, our drives can help you optimize energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions.

Seamless integration

Take the complexity out of your operations with mixed and matched components. Danfoss Drives integrate seamlessly into to any standard and can be built and shaped according to your preferences and needs.

Unique asset monitoring

Danfoss intelligent drives give you unique controllability of your system, with detailed data of your full operation right at the tip of your fingers. Securing higher uptime and savings on your operation costs.

Higher reliability

Always robust, Danfoss Drives ensure high uptime — even under the strongest vibrations and shock conditions.

Edge computing

Unleash the full intelligence of your system at your heavy industry facility with our patented edge computing technology – supporting high uptime for your production and savings on operating costs, by supervising your electric motor and heavy industry applications.

With edge, data is collected several times per second, ensuring any measurements outside the normal range trigger a warning, minimizing the risk of undetected abnormalities.

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Involved in mining?

See how inherent robustness, easy integration, and complete system independence can help steer your mining project towards greater sustainability and profitability. Danfoss Drives ensure smarter water management, enabling you to optimize your mining operation while reducing CO2 emissions and water waste.

Aerial view of a cement plant
Involved in cement?

See how higher power density, intelligent heat management and unique system flexibility can help your cement project produce more and pollute less while reducing CO2 emissions and increasing uptime.

Case stories

Unique load sharing management and precise rotation speed in difficult environments

Drives are incorporated in many applications throughout an operation. With the powerful VACON® NXP drives from Danfoss Drives, Italian contractor Cogeis secured maximum power for excavating uphill tunnels.

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Arizona mine side view of trailer. Photo courtesy of Rockridge Controls.
Addressing Dewatering Challenges at an Arizona Mine: VLT® AQUA Drive

Arizona copper mine enhances safety & efficiency with urgent 250-HP dewatering pump upgrade for optimal water control.
Maximum uptime at the Czech Republic’s largest steelworks

Water risk in mining demands robust pumping systems. An Arizona copper mine urgently upgraded its 250-HP dewatering pump for optimal water control, ensuring on-site safety and efficiency.
Danfoss VACON® drives cut energy consumption

Thanks to VACON® AC drives, Yamana gold mine enjoys a 30% energy reduction in energy consumption for its underground ventilation and pumping systems.

Meet our heavy industry experts

Craig Rapson

Global Key Account Manager 
Heavy Industry

Chad White

Global Business Director
Heavy Industry

John Conboy

Global Head of Industry

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Drives for heavy industry applications

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Back Channel Cooling

Cost-saving heat management

A compact design that exhausts up to 90% of system heat outside the building makes it possible to reduce the size of your cooling system in the panel or switch room. These remarkable savings are achieved with Danfoss’ panel-through cooling system or the extremely efficient back-channel cooling concept.

 

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